Elisabeth Weed, Literary Agent
Elisabeth Weed is an active literary agent currently affiliated with The Book Group, accepting queries for a variety of genres, including commercial fiction and women's issues.
Elisabeth Weed is a partner and co-founder of The Book Group. She began her publishing career at Curtis Brown in 1999 and founded Weed Literary in 2007 before co-founding The Book Group in 2015. She represents authors with a long-term career focus, and her clients have appeared on major bestseller lists, been selected for Good Morning America book club picks, and sold more than a million copies worldwide.
Elisabeth is primarily interested in upmarket and commercial fiction with strong hooks and compelling voices. She particularly enjoys atmospheric thrillers, psychological suspense, mysteries, crime fiction, and propulsive novels that combine literary quality with broad commercial appeal.
Her current wishlist includes:
Voice driven, page-turning novels with emotional resonance—stories that entertain and linger long after the last page
- Fresh genre-bending suspense and puzzle-box mysteries
- Atmospheric thrillers and dark psychological suspense
- All things dark academia, gothic or class related, either in contemporary or historical fiction
- Dual timelines and ambitious plot structures
Hints
Read! It makes such a difference to me when a query letter cites a comparison book (and it actually lives up to it) as it shows me that the author knows her audience and has done her homework. And buy books. Our industry isn't in a great place at the moment and needs all the help it can get. And, if you want to be published and have others buy your book you really should be doing the same.